Using 841 words to tell us you don't like the way the image changes channels is a bit much. I have about 40 different fta satellite receivers of various makes/models that I have used at least once in the past twenty years and they all change the channels basically the same way. So maybe understand how they work and you will be happier??? Otherwise, use OpenATV and enjoy life!
I could have used an even 1024 or 2048 words....0400, 0800 hex if you please...to tell you I would like to not have to spend half a day making sense out of no sense.
Please do not be offended.
What you're saying in essence is every piece of A/V equipment a person owns or has owned over the eons is operated in basically the same way of methodology. But once you cross the interest into FTA, the game changes. Nonsense. I challenge you to visit Wally World or Best Buy and pick up any brand of remote control from rip-chow-ching to Sony. 3 seconds. Maybe 5. You'll be testing your potential new tv out with flying colors.
Of course you're not going to change your way of presenting your own, very nice rendition of Enigma 2 firmware. But for God sakes where is it posted that the green button does what?
And 40 receivers. Seriously? I only have 4 including a GI VC2+. If the color keys on the remotes are used. They are usually to select options in a menu.
Learn how to use it? As you say. There is a "standard way". Wouldn't that include the Help button? Which is largely empty of the little hovering arrows.
Almost all fta satellite receivers have a key to press to bring up the satellite list. In TNAP images, this is the green button.
After pressing the green remote button, select a satellite and press the OK button. This gives channels for the satellite. (And again, a standard practice in fta satellite receivers.) Now scroll through the channels for the satellite and press OK on the channel you want. Simple enough.
TNAP images are preset to use Neutrino style channel selection. In the middle of the remote is an OK button. Directly above the OK button is an arrow up, and directly below the OK button is an arrow down. Use these two arrows for single channel changes.
You may also change channels through the epg list which is usually empty, (For those that want to zap through an empty epg list for whatever reason. )
Use the Hotkey menu to change remote key Function(s). Don't like the way the keys are mapped? Re-map them.
A bouquets list should stay in the order that you assign it. You can expect any other channels lists besides Bouquets or epg to be in alphabetical order.
Using channel editors can cause corruption or errors. You should be able to go into Antenna setup and scroll all the way to the end of the satellite list in Both directions without any hangups. Something is wrong if you cannot do this, and the satellites.xml file should be immediately fixed for proper operation.
A common glitch seen is this. There has never been an issue with scrolling a satellite list. It's in the scanning section where there is a neverending issue with any image.
Using a full-fledged and complete factory released satellites.xml file has you scrolling through a gazillion sats.
Comes a point in any image I've tried where there is a hiccup that will not let you cycle "the other way".
Leaving you bumping through the entire list and hoping you don't pass your intended sat. Because if you do. You have to do it all over again.
Sometimes a restart gui fixes it. Reboot always does. For a bit.
You are welcome to attach any Bouquet that does not work correctly. But you will also need to attach at least the satellites.xml file and the lamedb file that were in use when the offending Bouquet file(s) were made. Corruption or errors probably exist if the Bouquet file is not shown in the assigned, non-alphabetical order.
Strange how with fingers crossed I was able to read atv with E-Channelizer, save it to a lamedb file. And write it to vix. No anomalies.
And from vix to a file and then a write to atv. Or read from image A, let the editor set. Boot into image B in another slot and write. Not a burp, one.
Having never seen this before I thought it was a settings hidden deep in TNAP. The Bouquets never had issues nor did the channels or ordering of them.
If you don't like the Neutrino channel style then disable it in User interface menu. There are other channel change features that can be enabled using this menu.
I'm sorry, man. I just guess every image I try from now on will need setting down with a pen and pad and jot what all the key do and don't.
One thing cannot be argued with is the wally world/best buy challenge.
Reminds me of the time I ordered a Rib Eye and all the fixin's and taking the first bite and it tasted like liver. I sent the steak back and the chef came darting out of the kitchen. No how, no way would he take a bite of the steak to taste the liver left on the grill.
....lets see...03FB hex is a good stopping place.
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